Those 'chick' publication (was [Mid] That evil LotR)

From: Charles J. Cohen <charles_at_mynah.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: Wed 02 Jan 2002 03:19:39 PM EST
Message-Id: <200201022019.g02KJdw05810@mynah.eecs.umich.edu>

To me, those Chick publication people are extreme fundamentalists,
with narrow bigoted views which remind me so much of other extreme
religious fanatics (like bin Laden's ilk).

Every religious group has them, and it really is a shame.

- Midair

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>jeePERS. Did ya read the "why D&D is bad" "articles"?
>
>People like that give good christians a bad name.
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>[mailto:owner-sca-middle@scotland.midrealm.org]On Behalf Of Dean Hamann
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>Check it out at http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp
>
>Wolfger
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>Hilton Kaufman wrote:
>
>> It sounds like something a bunch of us who are 32nd degree (or higher)
>> masons received a few months ago.
>>
>> Enoch
>>
>> > From: "Linda R. Fox" <lindaf@sff.net>
>> > Reply-To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>> > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:45:21 -0500
>> > To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Mid] That evil LotR
>> >
>> > On 1 Jan 2002, at 16:21, Finnvarr de Taahe wrote:
>> >
>> > Date sent: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:21:41 -0500
>> > From: Finnvarr de Taahe <finnvarr@ealdormere.sca.org>
>> > To: Middlebridge <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
>> > Subject: [Mid] That evil LotR
>> > Send reply to: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>> >
>> >> Back when D&D was first being attacked as a prelude to out-and-out
>> >> Satanism, some of us SCA types found at one of our meeting sites (OK
>> >> it was a pub) a little cartoon-strip pamphlet associating D&D,
>> >> Satanism, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I though this was funny and
>> >> ironic until I realized that the promoters of the pamphlet probably
>> >> thought the Pope was an emissary of Satan, too, and so the whole thing
>> >> was consistent.
>> >>
>> >> Finnvarr
>> >>
>> > That was a Jack Chick publication. There are dozens of them
>> > (hundreds, as a matter of fact) espousing Jack Chick's somewhat
>> > demented view of the universer and Christianity in particular.
>> >
>> > My husband has been a Chick collector for years, and recently
>> > bought a book entitled: The World of Chick published by Last Gasp
>> > press.
>> >
>> > He is a fascinating piece of Americana, worthy to be up there with
>> > Amy Semple McPhereson, Billy Sunday and whoever it was who
>> > invented snake handling.
>> >
>> > Chaos, panic, disorder. My work here is done!
>> >
>> > Linda/Audelinde/Aunty A.

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